The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-02
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Colored pearls are much esteemed for
elegant jewels.
Jerseys have come to be more popular
than fashionable.
Moire silks have lately become exceed
ingly fashionable.
The tournure is narrower, but hardly
perceptlbly smaller.
Stripes and plaids still hold a high
position in popular favor.
Braiding is used in great quantities as
garniture for tailor-made gowns.
Fancy haipins are generally worn and
continue to be ornamental and elaborate.
Belts made entirely Of gilt braid are
stylish and are worn with white cos
tunes.
The gilt and silk braid trimmings form
an attractive garniture for tailor made
costumes.
The sailor jacket with a blouse waist
underneath is favorite model to wear
with killed skirt.
Beads made of Swiss lapis-lazuli, and
about the size Of pea, are favorite orna-
ments with young ladies.
Blue and black is a new color combi-
nation which is exemplitied in some very
pretty wooden materials.
Brier stitching, as well as feather
stitch, is used on children's clothing,
both dresses and jacket.
Large buttons enter into the trim
mings of many costumes, and are of
very beautiful workmanship.
Checked silk handkerchiefs, in various
color-combinations, are much favored as
garniture upon travelling hats.
Plated shirt waists of various fancy
materials are in high favor for neglige
wear with skirts of plain fabrics
Nancy Lewallen, aged 10e years, has
been sent to the poor-farm at Martins
vile, Ind, from Monroe Township.
The prettiest footgear are the slippers
of dull kid in darker shades. They have
a Moliere buckle and large bow of satin.
The prophecy is that less jewelry will
be worn on undress occasions than ever.
Only with full dress will diamonds be
permitted.
A wide band of velvet at the foot of
the dress is one of the most attractive
models of trimming, and promises to be
popular again.
Miss Ada Leigh, who successfully
founded a home for American girls in
Paris, is endeavoring to establish a SINH
lar home for young men.
Costumes of striped fabrics are some
times varied by making the skirt and
bodice one way of the material, and the
draperies and vest the other.
Patent leather tips and foxings are
still worn, and will continue to be during
the present season. Lace boots still
hold the favor of young people.
Sashes are often worn with basuues,
being folded narrow and arranged to
follow the outline of the basque in front
and over the hips, and tied in large
bow at the back.
Jet has not yet been superseded in
popular favor. Bead trimmings in colors,
and colored cord passementeries without
beads, are fashionable decorations for
woolen costumes.
Pinked-out flounces appear as a gar
niture upon silk skirts. ThaaE,A.tgyS ~ G,sft Gs,ssSt
ioPs or points are sutISaHIt btIYSaHIted very closcI,
Adj yns fiounces thus made bein.
lisa entirely around the skirt.
The blouse polonaise is likely TO be
come popular. 1t is worn with bel
and shirred at the neck to form rount
yoke. 1t is but little shorter than tn,
dress skirt, and very slightly draped.
The large pins for fastening hats an'
bonnets are becoming elaborate affairs
Even the precious metals, jewels an'
pearls are used to ornament them, AM
the heads are in many artistic shapes.
Coat sleeves are gradually being super
seded by more elaborate designs TO
dressy toilets. 1t is not probable, how
ever that anything equally appropriat
will rival them for tailor made costumes
Now, that full blouses are so general
worn, fancy belts are coming into favor
Many tasteful designs are seen, ant
young ladies who are skilled at fame
work make beautiful belts for them
selves with comparatively small expense
The Khedive's wife is at most 26 year
old, and has an extremely charming
face. Her whole appearance would b
I bewitching were she not an Oriental
anu, tnelelole, young as suo isi alIooN
too stout to be perfectly beautiful ac
cording to European notions.
The seams of basques have undergon
no change, but the outside is put on i
various ways. A preference is shown 70
V-shaped trimmings both back and front
set between folds of the material whic
are plated wide on the shoulders an
taper into very fine plaits at the wais
| line.
Mrs. Horace Lewis, of Ketchum
Idaho, recently received a young ante
lope as a present, and the animal ha
become so thoroughly domesticated tina
it follows its mistress at all times, in
vades the kitchen, and seemingly takes
great interest in what is being pre-
pared for the meals.
The widow of Ezekiel Webster, a
elder brother of Daniel Webster, wa
born with the century, but she reads a
current literature, hears well and cor
verses with great intelligence on the cul
rent topics of the day. Ezekiel WebstC
was forty-fve years old and she br
twenty-four when they were married
and he lived only five years after tha